Denair Eugene Love, a 27-year-old Black man from Memphis, Tennessee, died on May 1, 2015, and the simple record of that date carries a weight that words struggle to hold. His name appears in public remembrance with the kind of quiet finality that makes the loss feel even sharper—one moment a person is here, stitched into the everyday lives of family and friends, and the next moment the world is left to speak of him in past tense.
In the days that followed, the details available to the p
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